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This publication is the result of three years of research carried out as part of the Göttingen interdisciplinary DFG-research group on "The constitution of 'cultural property'; actors, discourses, contexts, and rules" (FOR 772) in Cambodia between 2008 and 2011. The title of the project was "Processes of constituting a 'World Heritage' and its meanings by the example of Angkor, Cambodia". The research took the transformation of culture that takes place when it is turned into property, and especially into "heritage", as a starting point (see, for example, Brown 2003, 2004). Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, as one of the pioneers of heritage studies, convincingly showed already in 1998 that heritage is a new mode of cultural production in the present that takes recourse to the past. Heritage is a value-added industry. Heritage produces the local for export […] Heritage tests the alienability of inalienable possessions.